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Wbstpobt Harbour Works. —List op Saleable Plant. Value. Number and Description. jg a ,j One 7-ton Tangyes's crane, working pressure 701b. ... ... 485 0 0 „ 7-ton Shanks's crane, working pressure 651b. ' ... •■• 300 0 0 „ 5-ton Shanks's crane, working pressure 651b. ... ... ... 250 0 0 „ 5-ton Shanks's crane, working pressure 651b. ... ... ... 250 0 0 5-ton Shanks's crane, without boiler, and with some part broken ... 105 0 0 Class F, Stephenson's locomotive engine, No. 2,611, working pressure 1301b. ... 937 0 0 „ „ C, Dubb's locomotive engine, No. 802, working pressure 1001b. ... 675 0 0 ",, special pump and boiler, 2-horse power: size of boiler, sft. high by 2ft. sin. diameter, with 20 square feet heating surface in fire-box, and Galloway tube; working pressure 601b. ... ... ••■ ••■ ■•• 75 0 0 „ air-fan for tunnels „ hall-lamp (hanging) to burn kerosine ... ... „ tricycle velocipede, 3-6 gauge „ Pooley's weighbridge, 30 tons ... ... ... ... • • • 90 0 0 Two coal-buckets ... ... •■■ •■■ ••• 8 0 0 Nine low-sided waggons (Dunedin pattern) ... ... ... ... 153 0 0 Three „ „ „ ••■ ■■■ •••. ••• 30 0 0 Two end-tip waggons Total ... ... ••• ••• ••• £3,401 8 0 Note. —There are several other articles of plant, such as trucks,_&c, which it will perhaps be best to dispose of, but extra consideration is required to determine this. Westport Harbour Board Eevenue. Financial Years. Description of Earnings. 1887-88. 1888-89. 1889-90, Through the Eailway CommissionersMount Eochfort Eailway— £ £ £ Mineral traffic 13,422 19,300 23,342 Other traffic 3,292 3,803 3,238 Westport— Wharfage 1.003 990 1,053 Tonnage dues J164 J>6o J703 Gross total £18,180 £24,663 £28,341 Deduct working expenses, as shown in railway statement ... 9,736 11,663 14,645 Total earnings through the Bailway Commissioners " £8,445 £13,000 £13,696 Through the Lands and Mines DepartmentLand Eevenues — Eents, coal leases ... ... ■■• ■•• ••■ 1.491 1,469 1,647 Colliery reserves, sections, Westport ... .. ... 1,014 1,014 1,014 Eoyalties, coal leases ... ... •■■ •■■ 2,569 2,846 3,610 Miscellaneous (including proceeds, land sales) ... ... 96 74 706 Goldfields revenue ... ... ... ••■ 223 355 394 Total earnings through the Lands and Mines Department ... £5,393 £5,753 £7,371 By the Harbour Board itself Total earnings by the Harbour Board itself Grand total—actual earnings ... ...£13,838 £18,758 £21,067 Working expenses of Board, chargeable to revenue, mainly harbour and office expenses and salaries ... ... 1, 685 1,941 1,766 Net earnings left available for payment of interest and sinking fund b im ... 12,153 16,807 19,301 g IE Harbour Board Office, 3rd June, 1891. I beg to lay before you the conditions and prospects of the Buller relief-channel and stopbank, and to make some recommendations in connection therewith. Belief Channel. The relief-channel is holding a good course. In 1888, when I saw it for the first time after a lapse of some years, it ran in'the manner indicated in dotted pencil lines, between the points A and B, and some of the water which came into the channel at the head flowed back into the Buller along the channel marked C D (see plan of late survey attached), whereas now what little water there is between the points C and D runs towards the channel, and in floods a considerable body of water runs this way, which shows that the greater fall of the channel, which fall is nearly all dispersed